Re:Signal Foundation
by fossuser on Thursday February 22, 2018 @03:25PM
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They came up with a good solution to the 'key signing party' problem.
Using public social media accounts to help prove identity is a good idea - it's a solution to the main problem that PGP had.
I think Facebook could have done something similar by generating key pairs for all users and then allowing third part access to the public keys (basically a huge public key server). For users that wanted their own private key off of Facebook they could upload their own public key. It's probably better with the keybase model though and using multiple social media accounts.
Using public social media accounts to help prove identity is a good idea - it's a solution to the main problem that PGP had.
I think Facebook could have done something similar by generating key pairs for all users and then allowing third part access to the public keys (basically a huge public key server). For users that wanted their own private key off of Facebook they could upload their own public key. It's probably better with the keybase model though and using multiple social media accounts.